Today's Tech Talk

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Jaipur Based Start up Enterprise email provider DATA XGen Technologieshas launched world’s first free linguistic email address under the name ‘DATAMAIL’ which allows to create email ids in 8 Indian launguages, English; and 3 foreign languages – Arabic, Russian and Chinese. Email IDs in regional languages can be created on @datamail.bharat by individuals in India and abroad.User need to download the DATAMAIL app from play store, android or IOS devices and open the email ID.This effort will help to provide digital empowerment to native langauge speakers,

In order to contribute towards the Digital India Mission and Make in India mission, we at Data XGen Technologies, launched the first free ‘indic’ email service under the name ‘DATAMAIL’. The linguitic email service will allow people from across India to communicate in 8 regional and one English languages to provide ease of connect and bridging the digital divide among Indian citizens.”

According to the IAMAI’s report titled ‘Proliferation of Indian Languages on Internet’, the local language content penetration on the Internet is increasing over the time slowly. The Urban penetration reached up to 43per cent whereas the rural penetration stood at 57 per cent showing the higher acceptance of local language content in the Rural Internet users. It is estimated that enabling local language content on the Internet will lead to a growth of 39 per cent in the current Internet user base. Out of this, 16 per cent growth will come from urban usage and 75 per cent growth from the rural users.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The Yahoo chat service was introduced on 9 March 1998,which was very popular in those days. Slowly there was decline in user base eventually, with several new services rising to the fore, including Google Talk, social networks like Facebook, and smartphone chat apps like WhatsApp. Yahoo had announced a new version of Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop in December 2015.

In a statement issue by Yahoo they said “This complete revamp brings users an incredibly fast, beautiful and smart way to send – and unsend – messages, photos, and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations. While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to complete their transition to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August 5, 2016. We intend to continue our focused efforts on the new Messenger, with a goal of delivering the best experience to our users,”

Yahoo might integrate new features in the new version of Yahoo Messenger to compete with other messager services.The company said that the new version will be available on Windows and Mac.

The “Archived messages” that are now saved in the user’s Yahoo Mail, will also get deleted by August 5. Users can export them to laptop/desktop before the said date. Another service that gets discontinued is Yahoo Recommends. This will disappear by September 1, 2016. Instead, the company has asked the users to use Yahoo Gemini, a new monetization tool that provides publishers access to native advertising technology and high-quality ads.

Sunday, April 24, 2016

If you are planning to buy a used car or any other vehicle, you can now check its genuineness simply by sending an SMS to 7738299899 from your mobile phone. Similarly, the enforcement authorities can also verify the holders of driving licences, considered as proof of address in many cases, by sending the number to 8790499899.

To get the registration detial one has to send an SMS 'VAHAN' with vehicle RC no to 7738299899. The SMS sender will get a reply with the details. Similarly to check the status of a driving licence, the sender needs to type SARDL and send it to 8790499899.
User can also get more details by logging on to two websites -https://vahan.nic.in and https://sarathi.nic.in

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Currently Adobe PDF may be the most popular document format on the web Now a days ebook lovers prefer the ePub format over PDF. The main difference between epub and PDF is that PDF documents have a static layout with fixed page but the layout of an ePUB document is “responsive” meaning it will automatically adjust for different screen sizes.

We can read an ePub book on your desktop or inside the Google Play Books app on your Android phone and they’ll look good. Also, since ePub files are essentially HTML5 documents under the hood, the text size and font family can be easily adjusted for an improved reading experience.

There are various Free Apps like Adobe Stanza and Calibre are popular desktop software for creating ePub ebooks. Google Drive provides interesting feature in the browser using Google Docs itself. All you need to just compase a document in Google Document, or upload an existing Microsoft Word file to your Google Drive, go to File menu and choose download as EPUB publication.

We get an ePub file that you can copy to your mobile phone or,which can be uploaded the ePub to the Google Books website and access the ebook from anywhere. You can even read it in the browser.
ePub files are readable on iPad, Nook and Google Play books but Amazon Kindle doesn’t support the ePub format but you can convert ePub into MOBI format that is supports Kindle.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Google has added a new feature to Gmail which will help you clean up your inbox . The two features are “Block Sender” and “Unsubscribe.” The block function is currently available via Gmail for web, and allows you to block people from sending you emails. When you block a email ID it will move all email to your spam folder, so you never have to look at them.How to Block ?
In order to block someone, open up an email from sender, click the drop-down menu next to the reply arrow, and choose “Block Sender.”
Then it will ask for Confirmation that Incoming emails from sender will be moved to Spam.

The “Unsubscribe” feature is also very useful, and allows you to stop receiving promotional emails without having to navigate through complicated process to visit some third party website to unsubscribe
“Unsubscribe” is available on Gmail’s updated Android app (along with “Block Sender”), so if you’re an iOS or web user, you’re out of luck for the time being. But if you are an Android user who wants to unsubscribe, go to the promotional email, hit the “More” option (represented by the three vertical dots) in the top right corner, and choose “Unsubscribe.”

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

“e-Hastakshar”
is C-DAC’s On-line Digital Signing Service, offer an on-line platform
to citizens for signing of their documents securely in a legally
acceptable form, under the Indian IT Act 2000 and various rules and
regulations therein. It will enable citizens with valid Aadhaar ID and
registered mobile number to carryout digital signing of their documents
on-line. With this service, it is possible to replace hand written
signature by electronic signature, which can be put in documents in
electronic form. It will allow citizens to sign documents
electronically, thereby saving their time and effort. As a provider of
Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) and eSign services, C-DAC shall
play the role of a Certifying Authority (CA) under the Controller of
Certifying Authorities (CCA). More details are available at
https://esign.cdac.in.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Google Handwriting Input is pretty simple and can be easily operated by a regular smartphone user. Go to the Play Store, download the app and mark it as your default keyboard. The Handwriting app recognizes fingers and stylus both. The best part is that it is really good at making sense out of any kind of handwriting regardless of its legibility. It also takes accurate input of numbers and special characters.The main attraction of this keyboard is that users can hand write the message and the keyboard will then convert it to text. It supports 82 languages along with Hindi. Handwritten message recognition is not exactly a new feature, as it has been there for a while and it works very well for the languages that are hard to type in a keyboard.This apps is compatible with 4.0.3 and above
The best part of this apps is that you can use this as default keyboard wherever there is keyboard input on any apps .